“New Pixel-Collage” are collages. Making a collage means pasting together existing elements of reality to create a new world that did not exist before. A collage requires at least two different elements brought together, but can be made with more. Therefore something new, a new world, a new image, a new light is conceived. This means giving a response - through Form - to the question “How can abstraction be understood today?” Form is not just an idea Form is essential, Form is crucial, Form is the core. I want to give Form, and in giving Form I must show what I see, what I understand, what comes from myself without explanation or argumentation. Nothing is un-showable. What cannot be shown is what has no form. Everything that is ‘form’ is showable and viewable - even when incommensurable. Everything that has a form in this
incommensurable world must remain incommensurable,
without an attempt of becoming commensurable from not being shown or keeping our eyes shut. In order to confront the world, to struggle with its chaos, its incommensurability, in
order to coexist and to cooperate in this world and with the other, I need to confront reality without distance. It is necessary to distinguish ‘sensitivity’, which to me means being ‘awake’ and ‘attentive’, from ‘hypersensitivity’, which means ‘self-enclosure’ and ‘exclusion’. Today, more than ever, I need to see everything with my own eyes in our one world, and no one can tell me what my eyes should see or not.
– Thomas Hirschhorn
